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Camelopard wishes you a comfortable stay in your Millbrae California hotel. Seasoned travellers will become acquainted with the famous hotels in their destinations. The Imperial Hotel in Delhi, the Mandarin Oriental Macau, the Four Seasons Hotel in Hong Kong, the Hotel del Coronado in San Diego, the Cascades Hotel at Sun City in South Africa, the Hotel Metropole in Hanoi and the Hotel Baur au Lac in Zurich. are among the classic or luxury hotels of the world.

The spectral prisoners of Alcatraz; the blue, brain-like ETs of Palos Verdes; the sirens, serpents and flying monsters that once inhabited Santa Barbara Island and which may, perhaps, be reawakened one day; the haunted fourth floor window and other mysteries at the Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles; the wraiths of Camp Comfort County Park, which include a phantom horsewoman, a charred man, a headless man riding a motor bike, a bloody bride and a demonic hound that watches over the tomb of a vampire; the phantom policeman of Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, who hands out real but not legal speeding tickets;cowboys still searching for their gold in Rios Canyon, San Diego; and the ghostly sailors of the aircraft carrier USS Hornet in Alameda, are among the true ghost stories, myths and legends of California.

The Mennonite Lady in White of Adelaida Cemetery, who on Friday nights puts flowers on the grave of a child; Santa Paula's horned, white and hairy anthropoid, the Billiwhack Monster; the spectral woman who still supervises the Phoenix Inn oriental restaurant in Alhambra; the bigfoot or sasquatch of the northern forests; the spectral white deer of San Diego's Presidio Park; the reputedly haunted Renaissance Los Angeles Airport hotel, part of the Marriott chain; the ghostly couple who haunt the Marriott Anaheim Fairfield Inn, Anaheim; and Tahoe Tessie, Lake Tahoe's answer to Lake Champlain's Champ and to Nessie, the Loch Ness Monster, are other legendary tales of ghosts and haunted places in California.

The ghostly barefoot woman of Stow Lake in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco; the ghost of Claudia in the Mansions Hotel, San Francisco; the spirit of schoolteacher Miss Mary Lake in Room 410 of the Queen Anne Hotel in San Francisco, which was once a girls' school; the many ghosts of Elysian Park, Los Angeles, including a headless hound and a Lady in White; the reputedly haunted Room 217 of the Marriott Hotel, Long Beach; San Diego's haunted Horton Grand Hotel; the spirits of Kate Morgan, a little boy and girl, the mistress of a millionaire, a Victorian lady who likes to dance and a former caretaker in San Diego's famous Hotel Del Coronado (used in the movie Some Like it Hot and remarkable for its Victorian wooden architecture); and the haunted parking garage and eighteenth floor lounge of the Los Angeles Airport Marriott, are more weird folklore associated with California.

The many hauntings of the Queen Mary in Long Beach, which include a Lady in White in the reception area, children playing in the swimming pool, a man killed in the engine room and the mystery of room B340; the ghost who still makes phone calls from Room 1007 of the Paso Robles Hotel, San Francisco; the haunted swimming pool of Ramona Convent Secondary School in Alhambra, where bathers have their legs grabbed by unseen hands (the nun in white, in the library, is more harmless); the beautiful but sad Amanda, said to haunt Room 325 of the Vagabond Motel, San Diego; the little phantom girl who knocks on the door of Room 42 and the spectral madame of Room 33 who are among the ghosts of the San Remo Hotel, San Francisco; the male phantom of San Diego's luxurious US Grant Hotel; the spirits of Sacramento City Cemetery, including a little girl and a pit bull terrier; Kabar, Rudolf Valentino's Great Dane, who still lollops about the Los Angeles Pet Cemetery; and the giant lumberjack Paul Bunyan and his blue ox Babe, claimed as employees by the Red River Lumber Company of Westwood, are yet more strange folktales of California.

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